The Sandwitches - Photos by Rachel Walther and James Dillon

The Sandwitches - Photos by Rachel Walther and James Dillon

The Sandwitches - Photos by Rachel Walther and James Dillon

The Sandwitches - Photos by Rachel Walther and James Dillon

The Sandwitches have been garnering praise in the US thanks to their unique and feminine melodies.

Their second and latest albumMrs. Jones’ Cookieshas earned the girls favourable reviews worldwide.

Martin Douglas, for Pitchfork, wrote that they make “the primordial seem fresh”.

The Sandwitches’ represent the graceful side of music, one could say that they are the rock n roll equivalent of Jessica Chastain’s character inThe Tree of Life. And yet they are never cloying as their delivery is often kept rocky and their production unshorn.

The same unvarnished approach has been applied to their new video for the beautiful and bewitching Lightfoot; rather than lip synch to the mastered and pop-perfect album version of the track, they re-recorded it in a live performance held at Warnecke Ranch in Healdsburg, California.

The video, directed by Brian Lee Hughes, is being premiered on Vogue.it, and for the occasion we have asked Grace Cooper, Heidi Alexander and Roxie Brodeur a few questions.

The movie director Terrence Malick said that nostalgia is a feeling so powerful that it can drown out anything. Do you think one has to be careful not to be too nostalgic in music?

Roxie: Yes. But it is nearly impossible. Music is one of the most powerful conduits to transport us to a nostalgic fantasy world.

Heidi: It's a creepy thing. I think he's right. I think it drowns out the present and that's a pretty terrible thing. I'm going no nostalgia for lent. No cigs either.

Grace: Whatever one does with their art they should'nt try too hard to do any one thing or avoid another. Just do it.

It seems to be a moment now where anything goes in music. Musicians are expressing themselves with recordings so quickly and repeatedly that quality is being redefined. Can you name an attribute you believe a band needs for their music to survive nowadays?

Grace: I think it's important for artists and bands to be themselves. I believe that [in order to] be remembered further along down the road, there has to have been something special and genuine about what you were doing at the time,something that sets you apart.

Heidi: I think if you're not getting pleasure from it, or something from it, or giving something up and being changed then you're in trouble. I think anybody that makes anything out of the real deal can't help but survive, maybe not in a popular way, but in a metaphysical one for sure. Something happens you know.

Roxie: I think a band needs to feel it in their gut and that's all that matters. One will survive in many capacities if it comes from the heart.

Your new album Mrs. Jones’ Cookies has been very well received in the States. I know that you girls play all the time in California. Are you planning to tour Europe with Mrs. Jones’ Cookies?

Grace: Yes, hopefully in the fall.

Heidi: California's great but I would love to be in another country with these chicks and I don't mean Canada.

Onto fashion, this is Vogue, after all. If you had to choose ONE female style icon in rock music, who would you choose?